This newspaper had reported extensively on cheating, but hadn’t dug deeply into a more basic question: Just how good are the exams used to make critical decisions in schools? No one, it turned out, ...

I often come across heated blog posts where the author uses the argument: "exceptions vs explicit error checking" to advocate his/her preferred language over some ...

The main drivers of diagnostic errors in 2023 were issues with processing medical tests, referrals and communication, according to the Emergency Care Research Institute. Nearly 7 in 10 errors occur ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...

There is an increasing awareness of the impact of errors in medicine on the patient and on the entire healthcare system. It is estimated that as many as 98,000 people die annually in the USA as a ...

Remember that study last week that showed how district-mandated tests take far more time away from students’ and teachers’ schedules than state tests do? It turns ...

The Test-Path cmdlet can keep you from going bonkers by offering a little bit of script pre-error-handling. I always encourage people to add as much error handling as ...

To err is to be human. But what claims can be made about your system’s analog to digital converter (ADC)? We will review the extent of our conversion error rate ...